We
do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County
Register and CID/HOA board of directors and report the facts!

Loopholes,
the OCWWF and the next OCSD

You
cannot be part of the solution when you have been part
of the problem, as in Lt Hunt.

June
9,
2008

The Spin Machines for Hutchens and Walters for OC
Sheriff are full throttle trying to persuade the
Orange County Board of Supervisors that their gal or
guy is the right person for the job. So much dirt is
flowing in both directions putting SUV commercials to
shame.Then,
there are the Lt. Hunt supporters doing a Hilary
impersonation tying to get their guy the number two
spot, or any spot for that matter, in the new OCSD.

Good to see that that the Red
County bloggers, a self-described Grassroots
Politics from the Center Right picked up on the
CotoBuzz Journal Reporting of the Orange County Board
of Supervisors use of a search firm to irresponsibly
filtering out otherwise qualified leaders.

If you accept the premise - as the Orange County Board of
Supervisors, the OCDA and all the leading Sheriff
candidates have – that the OCSD’s culture is in
dire need of an extreme makeover, then it is
disingenuous to suggest that an insider who has had a
hand at creating the current culture is the person to
lead the charge to change it.That is, you cannot be part of the solution
when you have been part of the problem, as in Lt Hunt.

The board of supervisors, aided and abetted by special
interest groups, either because of lack of vision,
lack of leadership, lack of intestinal fortitude or a
combination thereof, missed an Obama Moment – a
golden opportunity handed to them with the indictment
of Sheriff Carona, to change the cultural landscape in
the OCSD, or as the Coto de Caza Board of directors
might say, blame it on the loopholes

What is required in the OCSD is a take-charge leader who can
go in and sweep all the Palmetto Bugs out of the
department.

To provide additional context to the aforementioned Obama
Moment, consider
the following:

A Review of the criteria used to winnow down the Orange
County Sheriff candidate’s indicates that Governor
Mit Romney, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, General
Colin Powell or captains of industry like Michael
Dell, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs would not make the
first cut. Initial interviews were conducted by Bob
Murray and Associates (BMA) Vice President, Regan
William. William’s claim to fame is having served as
Director of Public Safety with the City of Sunnyvale,
CA. - to put it in context, the City of Sunnyvale had
a population of 131,760, according to the 2000 Census,
whereas the County of Orange had a population of
2,846, 289, according to the same census. Refer to
BMA’s website for “current searches” for
additional comparisons - Sort of like the human
resources secretary being asked to interview a
candidate to replace the CEO!

Dismissing the process used by the Board of Supervisors to
cut otherwise capable candidates as simply “law
enforcement promotional endeavors” helps to promote
one of the two candidates left standing, but does not
help address the core problem with the OCSD, but helps
to absolve the board, the OCDA and the AOCSD for the
current state of affairs.

The fact is that the political future of the
current OC board of Supervisors, whether they like it
or not, will be tightly coupled to whether the
Palmettos are expelled from the OCS department prior
to the next election, unless the OCSD dies from bites
from a thousand bugs before then.

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